Affordable high endurance SATA SSD to replace my DC S3610?

[KC@Gadgetblues]

I use a 200 GB Intel DC S3610 (3 DWPD rated) for my surveillance cameras but it's coming up on 5 years, and I could use a bit larger model (500GB or 1TB).

Any recommendations? Refurb is OK due to the endurance. Host is Synology DS3617xs.

For reference, DC S3610 specs are 84K 4K IOPS read, 28K write, sequential 550 read, 520 write. I would go DC S4610 but it's only a year newer. The newest D3 S4620 960 GB is fairly expensive even on eBay at $350 for 960GB. IronWolf Pro 125 960 GB is only 1 DWPD and sold out everywhere.

 

[T_Minus]

I use S3610, S3700, S3710 for my camera systems too.

I probably have a spare sitting around I'd part with if you didn't mind that generation...

 

[BlueFox]

Can get an S3610 800GB for $80 shipped on eBay. Might not be the most recent model, but they'll likely last a really long time. I still have an SSD from 2008 (my first one) that reports 90%+ on SMART.

 

[Stephan]

Micron 5100 or 5200 or 5300 MAX 960 GB from the Chia miners who are now going out of business. Tried and true Marvell controller chip, low power, all also have power-loss protection. Endurance for 960 GB MAX is 9 PB so hard to kill with writes.

Firmware is behind login but that is easy to get or just ask me. Latest ver for 960 GB is 5100=D0MU075 5200=D1MU030 5300=D3MU001. Update through msecli on Linux or Windows. Will eat the update ZIP and just pick right version according to detected drive.

Not getting any SSD without publicly available updates anymore.

 

[Sean Ho]

Excellent choices, all. For surveillance, I don't see a problem with using spinners; what's your aggregate bitrate across all cams?

 

[zac1]

Micron 5100 or 5200 or 5300 MAX 960 GB from the Chia miners who are now going out of business. Tried and true Marvell controller chip, low power, all also have power-loss protection. Endurance for 960 GB MAX is 9 PB so hard to kill with writes.

Firmware is behind login but that is easy to get or just ask me. Latest ver for 960 GB is 5100=D0MU075 5200=D1MU030 5300=D3MU001. Update through msecli on Linux or Windows. Will eat the update ZIP and just pick right version according to detected drive.

Not getting any SSD without publicly available updates anymore.

Do you recommend these Micron drives, and are you willing to share firmware login? I'm confused by the last line.

 

[Stephan]

@zac1 Sorry, not willing to share my personal login. You can make your own on the Micron website. Then you can download firmware.

Last line implies that there are so many bugs in SSD/NVME firmware, no matter what model and manufacturer, that I will not buy any, which do not have already a small history of 1-3 updates to squash bugs, and where the updates are publicly available.

Yes, still liking Micron 5x00 MAX series.

 

[zac1]

@Stephan, I understand now — thank you for the pointers!